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Pope Leo XIV Wants a Missionary Church — What Does That Look Like Today?

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SSPX Consecrates Bishops in Defiance of Rome’s Schism Warning

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Keeping a Republic: A 250th Birthday Meditation

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Pope approves new statutes for Vatican's Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (Vatican News)

Pope Leo XIV issued a chirograph that promulgates new statutes for the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (Autorità di Supervisione e Informazione Finanziaria, or ASIF).

Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, reported that evolving international financial regulations led to the new statutes.

Pope Benedict XVI established the Financial Information Authority in 2010; Pope Francis issued new statutes in 2013 and 2020, when he gave the body its current name. Pope Leo’s chirograph, dated June 25, was released on June 30.

SSPX defies Pope, consecrates 4 new bishops (CWN)

Defying a plea from Pope Leo XIV, the Society of Saint Pius X proceeded today with its planned consecration of four bishops without a pontifical mandate.

Christians are 'called to be a credible sign of peace,' Pope tells Orthodox delegation (CWN)

In an audience with a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Pope Leo XIV said that Christians are “called to be a credible sign of peace.”

Pope Leo revises Pope Francis's apostolic constitution for Diocese of Rome (Vatican News)

Pope Leo XIV issued a motu proprio revising Pope Francis’s 2023 apostolic constitution on the Vicariate of Rome.

Pope Leo’s apostolic letter, Confirma Fratres Tuos, “simplifies and streamlines the distribution of responsibilities among the various bodies,” Vatican News reported. “The role of the Cardinal Vicar as head of the Vicariate and ordinary judge of the diocese is confirmed, while coordination of the Offices and the administrative structure is entrusted to the Moderator curiae [moderator of the curia], appointed by the Holy Father for a five-year term.”

The new document, dated June 24, was released on June 30.

Supreme Court, in 6-3 decision, upholds state legislation excluding boys from girls' sports teams (CWN)

In a defeat for the transgender movement, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that states are permitted to “determine eligibility for female sports based on biological sex.”

Priest killed in Central African Republic (Fides)

A priest who led mediation efforts to reconcile belligerents in his area of the Central African Republic was killed outside his parish residence in Zemio on June 29.

Father Crépin Martial Monga, who ministered in the Diocese of Bangassou, coordinated the Local Committee for Peace and Reconciliation. The Central African Republic Civil War began in 2012.